I was attracted to this book having been involved in electronics as a hobby and programming throughout my working years as a programmer and teacher. Elliot's style is engaging and the book is well written. However, I felt a bit let down by an impression that this was going to be a rewarding journey which I'd find relatively sraightforward, especially with a recent background of programming Arduino to control my Observatory robotics.
I perservered until chapter 5 - Serial I/O, where I quickly realised why a layer of abstraction such as Arduino is very useful. Much of the code you write will be reusable within and across projects, so immediately you start thinking 'Library'. But, you don't want to reinvent the wheel right? So you start looking for libraries....and find that Arduino core takes away so much of the really hard, mind blowing and tediously repetitive coding you get invlved in when you're this close to hardware.
Personally I think the book would be more useful to Arduino programmers (which is a selling point) if it blended the contexts of avr and Arduino and provided some contextual comparisons. It would also be a useful addition to present the basics of creating library functions.
Perhaps I'm just not a microcontroller hardware person after all. If you're a programmer and electronics hobbyist, convinced that spending huge amounts of your spare time dedictaed to making hardware work for you, is your cup of tea, this is a really good book for you. If on the other hand you want to be pretty productive from the word go, then a layer of abstraction with library functions is extremely useful, but not addressed in this book.
I think in a nutshell, I couldn't see the point of writing code for e.g. transmitChar, receiveChar etc , and making a library for it when others far more accomplished than I have done that already.
If you fancy a career in microcontroller related development and you have a solid background in programming and a reasonable level of electronics, this book is great.
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